Foresight

Warning: MP is relatively dead! (Add me if you want to play because I'm always down for a game!) Now that the warning (and the expression of needing friends for the game) is over with, let's move on to the actual review. From what I played of the SP campaign (only a couple of missions) it's a really thought out game. Although it is a bit awkward since the main character and Jun talk about something in their past. It's very vague and confusing for me. (Maybe it's explained during the campaign, I just have to continue playing in order to find out!) The game feels like a dumbed down 4X game. EXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate are all there with some dumbed down just enough to allow you to get into the action as quickly as you can. EXpand was dumbed down to the bare essentials, with a handful of buildings. The Command Center, a Refinery, a Shipyard, Energy Generators, Missile Defense Pads (I may be wrong on the name) and maybe one or two other buildings. That being said, I know the game is more a space-based RTS than a 4X game, it doesn't hurt to compare the similarities. As the dev said in their response to the review, they since played down the 4X description. Of which I e…

Not a fan, the voice acting makes it unbearable and the slow moving menu's pretty much drive the nail deeper. The game itself functions fine, the game play is smooth but all in all if it was lets say 50% faster in the menu's, 25% better graphics, 30% less like an old Linux game and 100% better in voice acting this would be a real gem.

It feels like SC1-- the nostalgia is real.

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Um, I'm in Level 2 which is basically the 1st real level of the game, and already it lets me go through 1 warphole, but once I gather all the resources from this area, I still can't go through the other 2 warpholes leading elsewhere, even from the map thing. I've tried everything, and there is no explanation as to how to open warpholes? It's like I'm just stuck. I don't get it.

Tags: RTS - Real Time Strategy Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Finnicky interface. Does not register clicks. Multimap battlefield is clunky and adds little to nothing in terms of gameplay or flavor. This somehow feels like playing Warcraft1 or the old Dune RTS. You build one thing at a time. Click a ton of times on units to select them and send them places. Sending through wormholes has the units go through the art for it and warp on a different tile past it. On-screen HUD info seems to obey standard conventions but i found myself looking around quite a bit for things that I felt should had been displayed but was not. Detailed info on units damage. Even flavor elements are lacking. No animated portrait or little blueprint schematic of the unit (Starcraft style). The harvesting is simplified to an extreme with the act of plopping down a refinery and having a little harvester go on its own to a ball of light and somehow gatheting something there. Unit selection worked by double/triple clicking and intercepting an enemy that is on route to your buildings can be surprisingly tricky. Voice acting for clicking units features foreign voices but other…